I make things of metal and code. I do road trips.

My main website is sensitive research (my queer scifi novel [The Delivery]is there), Rambler automobiles, Rambler Lore.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The beta emission is trivial and harmless. Alpha particles travel 7cm in air, glass absolutely stops it. A sheet of paper would.

    Its perfectly safe to wear.

    The paint on the watch hands contains radium and decay products but in tiny amounts. If the crystal broke wipe cup the dust with damp paper towel. Itsjust not that big a deal.

    Itvwss most dangerous to the people whomade them, exposed daily during a career. Andcl the placecthst had gallons of thecshit laying around.

    One old watch is harmless








  • The use of the word alarms me, I admit, because it’s a right wing word used to paint everything progressive as extreme as Soviet Union or CCP under Mao, the collective taking away of private property and difference and advantage.

    “Communism” is at this point a kind of highschool level argument of egalitarianism, an idealized abstraction.

    Then there’s Marxism etc tl:dr…

    No matter what you think of some of the concepts embedded (a few are actually progressive or seem so) it’s a fraught ideology, so laden with dipshit baggage few sensible people talk about it seriously.

    (Marxism is useful as an analytical tool to discuss capitalism, but no one sensible wants to live in a marxist state!)

    To me, “communist” is a right wing tell.


  • True enough. Americans may make up a large portion of the fedi…

    But it is true the Americans are less aware of how the US fits into the world scene.

    And US stuff posted here should be framed in a way that acknowledges how the story related to the world outside the US. I’d think they would be a major thing.






  • Define mass… The giant Twitter exodus we can now know was maybe 10%, some to mastodon/fedi, the rest who knows. I’d assume the same for Reddit, pending any factual data.

    And I suspect that many of those they left Reddit, reddit is better off without – super touchy argumentative people kinda made a noisy bro-ish pass through, may be starting to calm down now… I hope.

    The thing is, to me, to not worry about what “other people” are doing and stfu and build community. Post what you want to read etc. We don’t need over 9000 million people we just need the right people who show and contribute and all that.

    And so here we are!